What's A Major That Lets You Stay In The Fishing Industry?

[J Francho]

Personally, do what you can do well.  Work your butt off, and get the degree.  Show your employers you can learn, and work your butt off for them.  My background is in fisheries management, guess what I do?  I'm an IT consultant, basically a Business Systems Architect.  Go figure, been doing it for 13 years now, and actually love my job.

[Glenn]

Marketing.  The fishing industry is all about marketing.  And marketing is all about spinning a story.  In other words, writing.  There's a ton of people in the industry that are getting sponsored and/or doing very well, yet few are very good anglers.  It's because they have great marketing skills and terrific business sense.

 

But math is going to play a major role in what you do, no matter what.  Being able to analyze charts and graphs to make data driven decisions is critical in today's business environment, and it applies to everything.  Just read "Moneyball" and you'll see what I mean.

 

While you may not want to be an analyst, you'll still need those skills to manage budgets and programs in order to achieve business goals.  Anyone with analytical skills will get the nod over those that don't.

 

Major in marketing and minor in business or business analytics and you'll go far, no matter what field you choose.

[BassThumb]

You should contact your high school advisors and look into PSEO programs at your local community college.  Rather than attend high school, you can take free classes at the community college that will count towards an Assoc. of Arts degree.  Take a couple of their writing classes to see how much you like it, Analytical Writing, for example.  You just want to make sure the classes you take are transferable.  Use the u.Select website to find out what courses are transferable.

 

Not to mention, doing an AA program at a community college or a liberal education program (i.e. generals) at a local State University will buy you some time to figure out what you want to major in.  I don't personally recommend entering college without selecting what your major is going to be, but it works for some.

 

https://www.transfer.org/uselect/

[retiredbosn]

Seeing that you enjoy writing so much, its not surprising you don't like math. But like others have already posted math is essential in life. I've tutored several ppl in math, what I've found true among that small pool of ppl is that they are looking for why. Their mindset is somewhat abstract, math does not require a why. I don't know if I'm explaining this very well, but once I could get them past wanting to know why pi is 3.1415.... and just to accept that math works, we made progress. I hope u can find a way to work with your learning disability and be able to have a working knowledge of math. No matter what you major in you well have to take a couple classes in math. If u go with Business Admin or Marketing you will have a little more. The only thing I can say about statistics is that I learned that you can manipulate the data to whatever conclusion u wanted lol.

[Trackick9707]

Just a quick word of advise from a guy that is still paying off my wife's school loans. College's are business's... They don't really care about anything other than your money. Most of them are gonna tell you what you want to hear.  Your guidance counselors know this but they don't want to kill the golden goose.  This goes double for any kind of "art" major.  The practical applications for an art major are few and far between.  I'm not trying to discourage you, I'm just trying to teach you a lesson I learned the hard way.  My best advise, especially if you don't like math, is to pick a tech school and find a program that really interests you.  You'll save time and money. As for the writing, art is in the eye of the beholder. Read and write as much as possible and work on honing your craft.  If you do good work, start freelancing, or blogging, or any other way of getting your work out there for free.  If it's good, it will eventually make you money.  You don't need a college professor to lecture you about how you'll never reach there level because they are perfect and you are just a lowly student.  Believe in your talent and the rest will fall in place.  The tech degree will make you more money faster, meaning more time on the water, and more free time to write instead of waiting tables on OT to pay off a degree with no practical application.

[basslover12345]

I have a mild learning disability in math and math based sciences

[JayKumar]

Majors are overrated imo, but don't take that as advice.  I majored in psych...was borderline worthless for me (apologies to any psychologists out there).